A walk along the Via Francigena. This year we're trying something different – instead of following one of the many paths to Santiago de Compostela we are setting out on a medieval pilgrim route that leads from Canterbury to Rome. The way starts in the English cathedral city of Canterbury and passes through England, France, Switzerland and Italy. Its name "Via Francigena" is Italian and means the "road that comes from France". In the Middle Ages it was the main pilgrimage route from the north for pilgrims on the way to the Holy See and the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul. It is a distance of about 1900km and is still much less walked than the well-known routes to Santiago. There is also less pilgrim accommodation so the plan is to camp whenever possible. 2019 – we will be starting in Aosta where we finished last year and there are about 950 km / 600 miles left to walk to Rome. No tents this time as campsites are few and far between!

16.04.19 Tuesday Miraculously translated.

Or maybe that should be transported. We arrived in Naples the land of the Romans today with little effort on our part beyond getting up at 3am. A touch before even Tim’ early rising habits.
The flight left and arrived on time and at the right airport. It was quiet most other passengers stunned by their hour of rising. It was raining at Bristol Airport as we stood on the tarmac waiting to board.But it may be the last we see for a while. Who knows.
We arrived in Naples and found the Ali us to Statione Centrale and got on the metro underground never found a ticket sales and got of near the museum. Found the place Tony had booked on the net and got taken somewhere else in the area where our apartment was just being cleaned and dumped stuff and went for a biera and pizza what else. The Stone Rose nearly a rock band was outside.
More at the end of the week in Naples and when we restart the Via Francegena for real.

Link to where we are on Google Maps